blag
nounEtymology
The origin of the verb is uncertain; it is possibly: * from blag (“to rob; to steal”) (see etymology 1); or * borrowed from French blaguer (“to joke (about); to tell a lie”), from blague (“pouch, especially for tobacco; joke (from the notion of something puffed up, and thus fanciful)”) (from Dutch balg (“leather bag”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵʰ- (“to swell”)) + -er (suffix forming infinitives of first-conjugation verbs). The adjective and noun are probably derived from the verb.
Definitions
An armed robbery or robbery involving violence
An armed robbery or robbery involving violence; also, theft.
- 'What's he do, Micky?' / 'Armed blags is what I hear – s'posed to be one or two nice little tucks down to him that he didn't go for. He keeps well active. Someone told me he's putting one together now.[…]'
- Through Lenny I had met a character whom I shall call Billy. He was part of a blag team famous for a series of large-scale wage snatches.
- They're turning over any business that couldn't go running back to the Other People, sex shops and massage parlours, doing blags long after they went outta fashion, doing loads of drugs and not giving a fuck about keeping a low profile.
To obtain (something) through armed robbery or robbery involving violence, or theft
To obtain (something) through armed robbery or robbery involving violence, or theft; to rob; to steal.
To obtain (something) for free, particularly by guile or persuasion.
- Can I blag a fag?
- He’s blagged his way into many a party.
- He was just off to the Tramway to see that Dutch dance company. He said we could probably blag free tickets, they're desperate to paper the house.
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To obtain (something desired), or avoid (something undesired), through improvisation or…
To obtain (something desired), or avoid (something undesired), through improvisation or luck; to fluke, to get away with.
To use guile or persuasion on (someone)
To use guile or persuasion on (someone); also, to deceive or perpetrate a hoax on (someone).
To meet and seduce (someone) for romantic purposes, especially in a social situation
To meet and seduce (someone) for romantic purposes, especially in a social situation; to pick up.
To speak persuasively or with guile to obtain something.
- Some of my readers will undoubtedly call in question the veracity of what follows, and brand it with the title which is commonly called blagging still. This appellation cannot debilitate its sincerity; […]
Not genuine
Not genuine; fake.
- You’re wearing a blag designer shirt!
An attempt to obtain, or the means of obtaining, something by guile or persuasion
An attempt to obtain, or the means of obtaining, something by guile or persuasion; a trick.
- A good blag to get into a nightclub is to walk in carrying a record box.
An act of deceiving
An act of deceiving; a con, a deception, a hoax.
- Because I used to run cons with him. I came up here as a nun, but that was just a blag to make money out of the miners.
- Anyone who claims to be operating on a model designed to fulfil the will of Jesus, or Allah, or Krishna, or anyone, who isn't first and foremost dedicated to the union of all humankind and service of the needy is on a massive blag.
Deliberate misspelling of blog.
- Why don't you write about it in your blag?
- RONFLMAF! You do have a way with words. I think I need to update my blag, this is just too good.
- So, no less than ten people have asked me why the hell I did what I did, so here's a blag post to explain it, I guess.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for blag. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA